Lieutenant Alexander R. Nininger received the first Medal of Honor of World War II. 
 

On January 1, 1942, 26 countries signed the Declaration of the United Nations and 21 more countries formally joined the alliance prior to the end of World War II.

An interview with Anthony Tucker-Jones, author of the newly released Churchill: Master and Commander.

Must-reads of 2021 picked by historians and scholars in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. 

The German response to the Warsaw Uprising was characterized by ruthless terror and unrelenting bloodshed, which caused civilian support to drastically diminish.

Robert O. Paxton’s work continues to educate the world about the history of Vichy France, the emergence of fascism, and the Holocaust in France.

Polish civilians played a critical role in the two-month long conflict in Warsaw.

The surveillance and detention of Italian Americans after Pearl Harbor is a little-known piece of WWII history.

Shared enmity toward Franklin D. Roosevelt’s United States of America is what brought Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan together again in the early fall of 1940 to certify a new agreement.
 

Yoshikuni Igarashi examines the impact of World War II and Japan’s defeat on postwar Japanese memory.

As USS Arizona burned on December 7, 1941, Lt. Commander Fuqua displayed true courage under fire.

Takeshi Maeda, a Japanese Imperial Naval pilot, guided his bomber to Pearl Harbor and released a torpedo that helped sink the USS West Virginia. Years later, he became a leading figure in reconciliation efforts between Japan and the United States.